Shootings Fresno County

A convicted killer once described as a model student has confessed to committing the worst mass murder in Fresno County history. Johnnie Malarkey admitted Tuesday that he fatally shot seven people while robbing a southeast Fresno bar in 1993, as well as committing three unrelated killings that year. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

A convicted killer once described as a model student has confessed to committing the worst mass murder in Fresno County history. Johnnie Malarkey admitted Tuesday that he fatally shot seven people while robbing a southeast Fresno bar in 1993, as well as committing three unrelated killings that year. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.